The Marxist view that communism could only come after a bourgeois revolution followed by workers’ revolution

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What did Lenin say in his speech a few days before the February Revolution broke out?

That the revolution may not come in his lifetime

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What was the name of the list of aims that Lenin sent ahead on his journey back to Russia?

April theses – PG was result of bourgeois revolution, Bol must now work for workers’ revolution, should work against PG + needed to get out of the war. Bol came round to his view after initial disagreement.

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When was the second Provisional Government established?

5 May 1917 –had members from main political groups except Bolsheviks. Non-Bol members of Petrograd Soviet joined PG but it still hadn’t taken Russia out of the war or made reforms

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Why did the Bolsheviks gain a lot of support?

As the people of Petrograd came to see the Bolsheviks as the only real supporters of radical change and ending the war.

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When did the Provisional Government introduce bread rationing?

March 1917

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When did the Russian generals lead another offensive and what happened as a result?